Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Wealth covers sin - the poor Are naked as a pin.
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- One causes swollen heads, The other, swollen bellies.
And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the spirit of Christmas. (. . . ) With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal.
I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.